The company’s exploration program has highlighted the trend’s potential to host zones of high-grade mineralisation within a broader mineralised envelope.

Gidgee is 70 kilometres north of Sandstone in WA's Mid West

Gateway Mining Ltd (ASX:GML) has identified an additional high-grade exploration target at its Gidgee Gold Project in Western Australia.

The mineralised 1.6-kilometre Rosie-Airport gold trend was delineated through a systematic program of data validation, interpretation and targeting of the project’s historical technical datasets.

This work identified the zone as a major structural corridor that includes both discrete contact mineralisation between mafic volcanic rocks and granodiorite and extensive stockwork-mineralised zones within the granodiorite.

New exploration programs beginning in October will focus on resource evaluation and expansion at the Whistler and Montague prospects, as well as geological mapping and drilling at Rosie-Airport.

These activities will position Gateway to estimate a maiden gold resource for the wider Gidgee project.

‘Untapped exploration potential’

Gateway managing director Peter Langworthy said the company’s systematic approach to reviewing the historical data for the Gidgee project was continuing to yield exciting results.

He said: “Each time we interrogate the historical database, we come up with significant new information – and new, high-quality drill targets.

“This shows the substantial and largely untapped exploration potential within our broader ground position at Gidgee.

“Our view is that exploration datasets are a massive asset of resource companies with the potential to host hidden new discoveries.”

Gidgee a potential emerging gold camp

The identification of Rosie-Airport follows Gateway’s discovery of a 10-kilometre-long parallel gold trend along the eastern margin of the Montague prospect and the 4-kilometre-long prospective corridor identified through the company’s maiden drilling program.

Langworthy continued: “We have been diligently working through 40 years of historical exploration data and … we are unearthing a series of new high-quality exploration opportunities.

“While our immediate focus will be to define a maiden resource position for the project at our high-priority Whistler and Montague targets, we will also continue to pursue the broader exploration potential within our tenements in a measured and systematic way.

“We are increasingly of the view that the large-scale opportunities we have identified form part of what we believe to be an emerging gold camp.”